Homage to Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen

I see the inner peace
in your eyes and face.
I see the calmness
in which you meditate
writing poems verse by verse
of everything in this universe.
The world is your home
and poetry, seeing and being.

You relate things to real life
through voices and images
weaving together the inner
and the outer life.
The transparency of the world
you make us see
in the distant brightness of the sky.

In the shadows of walls cast by star-lights,
a sudden face emerges
in the silent breathing of nights,
among the clamor of people
in the rooms and streets of city life.

Your “scent of the linden and of oregano”
sends me to new heights.
Sophia, your poems in my loneliness
have brought me many delights.